The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Got Over $10 Billion Back for Scammed Consumers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is the government agency that was dreamed up by now-Senator Elizabeth Warren. It’s tasked with helping consumer finance markets work by making rules more effective, by consistently and fairly enforcing those rules, and by empowering consumers to take more control over their economic lives.

In the short time the CFPB has been around (they got started in 2011), the Bureau has already returned over $10 billion to consumers scammed by their financial institutions.

Here are a few more facts about the CFBP’s achievements since they began in 2011.